1. An estimation of the size of the FMA (number of tracks, and total size of files)2. A funkwhale instance were we can import the music3. A script to crawl/download the whole archive4. Permission from the FMA to run the script (since it may increase their bandwidth cost)5. Funding to cover the hosting costs, if relevant

I think I can provide 2. and 3., so any help on the other aspects would be amazing. If you have the time to research 1., contact the FMA about 4., provide hosting resources (or funding), that would be awesome!

@funkwhale Archive.org might also be approachable about providing hosting for an instance of #FunkWhale serving the #FMA collection - and potentially other libre music collections they hold - to the #fediverse. Again, the folks working on archiving the FMA seem like the best people to talk to.@switchingsocial@musicman

@strypey@switchingsocial@musicman thank you for the clarification. Since Archive.org seem to allow (and even encourage) scraping / downloading, and I found a way to get the tagged files (by downloading the originals), that's a few questions/problems solved!

@funkwhale I've found that I can follow https://open.audio/federation/actors/eliotberriot from Mastodon. Are there federation features between Funkwhale and other social engines (such as Mastodon or Pleroma or Friendica) planned?Such as commenting, for example, or subscription with embedding?..

@drequivalent I'm sure patches / pull requests are welcome ;) In fact, after the recent discussions about helping #Dreamwidth support #ActivityPub, I wonder if there's a place for a crack team of federation ninjas to kick into action whenever a project wants to improve their federation feature set?@funkwhale